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Edward Meryon

1809–80

Physician. Physician, Hospital for Nervous Diseases; lecturer in comparative anatomy, St Thomas’s Hospital, London. Author of books on the nervous system and the history of medicine. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1857. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1859.

Sources

List of the Geological Society of London

Medical directory 1863, Modern English biography

Physicians.

Bibliography

List of the Geological Society of London. London: [Geological Society of London]. 1864–1934.

Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

Physicians: The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London. By William Munk. 2d edition, revised and enlarged. 3 vols. London: Royal College of Physicians. 1878. Lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Compiled by G. H. Brown et al. 5 vols. London: Royal College of Physicians. Oxford and Washington, D.C.: IRL Press. 1955–89.

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